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Panthers Look to Demeco Ryans, Giants - Vikings Matchup, & Tashaun Gipson Sr. Joins The Show · NFL Now

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Speaker 1: our reports on the Raiders and Derek Carr, specifically the
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Speaker 1: fact that for all intents and purposes is the Raiders
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Speaker 1: are now accepting phone calls for their all time leading passer.
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Speaker 1: He's been there nine years, but he didn't play the
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Speaker 1: last two games. Jarret Stidham did, and car was away
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Speaker 1: from the team. They're moving on and they're ready to
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Speaker 1: trade him. Derek Carr has taken to Twitter to thank
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Speaker 1: Raider fans both in Vegas and back in Oakland, and
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Speaker 1: he said that while in the past he has suggested
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Speaker 1: he only wants to play for the Raiders, he now
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Speaker 1: is ready for the next chapter. He now is ready
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Speaker 1: to go win a championship somewhere. It's just not going
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Speaker 1: to be with the Raiders. It's good more on this one.
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Speaker 1: The en rappapor Tom Fella Sero with me. Now Ian
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Speaker 1: there is a deadline of sorts here because there's money
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Speaker 1: that's come and do tell me about that. Yeah, the
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Speaker 1: forty plus million dollars becomes fully guaranteed in Derek Carr's
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Speaker 1: contract three days after the super Bowl, and that is
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Speaker 1: the deadline. And usually these things can linger and we'll
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Speaker 1: talk about it all February. This is not that case.
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Speaker 1: What a new team needs to know, and really what
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Speaker 1: the Las Vegas Raiders need to know as well as
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Speaker 1: is Derek Carrs guaranteed money gonna be on the books?
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Speaker 1: Presumably they would release him before that money becomes fully guaranteed.
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Speaker 1: That we do not know that for sure, and the
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Speaker 1: forty Niners and Jimmy Garoppolo are a great reason for that.
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Speaker 1: But what the Raiders need to figure out, Thomas, what
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Speaker 1: is the market? No doubt about it, Derek Carr is
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Speaker 1: going to be one of the hotter free agent potentially
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Speaker 1: quarterbacks available, but we don't know is he going to
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Speaker 1: be the hottest trade quarterback available? You of Tom Brady
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Speaker 1: potentially of Jimmy Garoppolo, Baker Mayfield. They are going to
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Speaker 1: be others, But does the team want to lock in
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Speaker 1: their starting quarterback right now? With a month ago before
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Speaker 1: free agency. The Raiders are gonna be making calls, They're
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Speaker 1: gonna be taking calls. They're going to be figuring it
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Speaker 1: out meanwhile, not shutting the door in anything. Well, Derek
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Speaker 1: Carr said out a goodbye statement, so it certainly seems
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Speaker 1: he is pointing to a which direction this goes ian
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Speaker 1: There are parallels here to the Lions and Matthew Stafford
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Speaker 1: a couple of years ago, where the sides got together
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Speaker 1: in the days after the regular season ended, decided it
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Speaker 1: was going to be best to go their separate ways
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Speaker 1: and then work together to figure out Matthew Stafford's landing
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Speaker 1: spot that ended up being the Rams. The deal got
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Speaker 1: done on January, which would fit the timeline that the
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Speaker 1: Raiders are on. The difference, of course, here, is that
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Speaker 1: Derek Carr does have that forty point four million dollars
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Speaker 1: and becomes fully guaranteed if he's still on the roster.
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Speaker 1: At four pm Eastern one pm Pacific time on Tuesday,
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Speaker 1: February four, so it's very clear. Besides have one month
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Speaker 1: to work something out, car has no trade clause, and
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Speaker 1: even if he didn't, he would still have control over
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Speaker 1: this situation by simply saying he's not going to go
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Speaker 1: someplace if he doesn't want to be there. If they
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Speaker 1: can't work something out, then the expectation would be the
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Speaker 1: Raiders would end up releasing him. But again, they've got
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Speaker 1: a month to try to figure out something trade wise,
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Speaker 1: all right. Derek Harr turns thirty two at the end
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Speaker 1: of March. For those who say we'll go get a
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Speaker 1: young quarterback, Tom Brady is playing Monday Night at the
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Speaker 1: age of forty six. Thank you, Ian, Thank you Tom.
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Speaker 1: What is the market now for Derek Carr All time
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Speaker 1: leading passer and Raiders franchise history, Mark Ross all kinds
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Speaker 1: of comebacks? Actually tied with Brett Farr for fourth quarter
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Speaker 1: and overtime comebacks. He's come through in the clutch, never
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Speaker 1: won a playoff game though he hasn't. But I think
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Speaker 1: it'll still be robust Andrew, And that's just because there's
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Speaker 1: just not a lot of good quarterbacks in the league,
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Speaker 1: not enough to go around. You got your top tier guys.
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Speaker 1: The Mahomes and Allen's and then after the drop off there,
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Speaker 1: you know you've got some younger guys in the mix.
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Speaker 1: But I think it'll be robust because Derek Carr has
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Speaker 1: shown to be a Pro Bowl quality quarterback in this league. Yes,
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Speaker 1: he had the down year this year, but teams will
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Speaker 1: also look at the person that Derek Carr is, the dependability,
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Speaker 1: the leadership, the intelligence, Dell factor all that in and
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Speaker 1: say Derek Carr will still work and get better and
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Speaker 1: get back to that Pro Bowl form that he has shown.
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Speaker 1: You'd have to look at sort of the trades in
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Speaker 1: the past couple of years four quarterbacks. Let's just use
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Speaker 1: Carson Wentz for an example. Two years ago, the Eagles
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Speaker 1: got a first round pick for Carson. Last year, the
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Speaker 1: Commanders gave up a second round pick. Some other picks
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Speaker 1: were involved there, but essentially a second round pick for
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Speaker 1: Carson Wentz, the guy that showed that he wasn't the
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Speaker 1: answer for for Indie and then goes and still gets
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Speaker 1: more trade value there. So I think there Car when
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Speaker 1: teams really start looking at the player that he can
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Speaker 1: get back to the forum and the person that will
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Speaker 1: really intrigue teams and to go get Derek Andrew the
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Speaker 1: bigger Mayfield Traders for a conditional five granted, much different situation.
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Speaker 1: He was on the fifth and final year. It was
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Speaker 1: a guaranteed year coming off of his rookie deal. But yeah,
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Speaker 1: teams need quarterbacks and the carousel has now officially begun
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Speaker 1: to spun. Thank you, Mark Ross. Speaking of the quarterback carrousel,
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Speaker 1: let's talk Jets quarterbacks here Zack Wilson, Joe Flacco, Mike White.
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Speaker 1: As Robert Salad does his postseason press conference today, also
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Speaker 1: in Rapp Report, Jets owner Woody Johnson spoke to the
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Speaker 1: local media. What do you have to say about the
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Speaker 1: whole quarterback thing? Well, the quarterback thing is gonna be
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Speaker 1: a big part of the Jets off season. And which
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Speaker 1: quarterback are they're gonna go after? How much are they're
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Speaker 1: gonna pay for him? Are they going to trade a
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Speaker 1: lot of questions. Woody Johnson provided some answers today, telling
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Speaker 1: local beat writers that he would be willing to pay
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Speaker 1: for a potential free agent or traded quarterback. It could
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Speaker 1: be big money. Everything involving quarterbacks is big money. So
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Speaker 1: hearing a commitment from Woody Johnson there, I think was
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Speaker 1: important and essential if the Jets are really gonna do
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Speaker 1: anything this offseason. The other thing that Woody Johnson said
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Speaker 1: was that there is no playoff mandate for Joe Douglas
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Speaker 1: and Robert Salt, which also is good to hear. That
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Speaker 1: said they're gonna want progress. The only progress you would
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Speaker 1: think would be the playoffs. So while there's no mandate,
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Speaker 1: clearly everyone involved knows that they are going to need
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Speaker 1: to show improvement and probably make the playoffs. So the
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Speaker 1: words are words, but I think the it is very
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Speaker 1: clear inside the organization that things need to get better
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Speaker 1: and it starts at the position. Also interesting and maybe
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Speaker 1: something for later that we could do another day. Woody
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Speaker 1: Johnson said that he wasn't necessarily happy with the way
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Speaker 1: that Zack Wilson was developed, but again we'll hold that
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Speaker 1: to another day. Meantime, Tom on the coaching search, what
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Speaker 1: are the Carolina Panthers up to? Carolina Panthers are putting
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Speaker 1: in a lot of interview requests right now, Andrew. Of course,
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Speaker 1: they've already conducted multiple interviews with the likes of Jim Caldwell,
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Speaker 1: Frank Reich, their interim coach, Steve Wilkes. They've requested a
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Speaker 1: handful of offensive coordinators, and another request that went in
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Speaker 1: today was for Demiko Ryan's the forty Niners defensive coordinator,
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Speaker 1: who has been a hot name so far in terms
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Speaker 1: of requests. The Cardinals actually also have put in for Ryan,
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Speaker 1: so have the Broncos and the Texans, So the first
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Speaker 1: candidate that we know of that has four different requests.
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Speaker 1: He's obviously done a phenomenal job with that forty Niners defense.
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Speaker 1: He's a former NFL player, strong leadership traits, and really
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Speaker 1: impressed the Vikings when he interviewed for their job a
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Speaker 1: year ago. Meanwhile, the Texans interviews are continuing. One name
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Speaker 1: that they have requested is Ram's assistant head coach and
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Speaker 1: tight ends coach, Thomas Brown. Brown interviewed with the Dolphins
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Speaker 1: for their head coaching vacancy one year ago. He's somebody
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Speaker 1: that Sean McVeigh has called one of the greatest competitors
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Speaker 1: that he's ever been around, a former NFL running back himself,
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Speaker 1: So keep an eye on Thomas Brown amongst some of
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Speaker 1: the other names. In Houston, where they completed their interview
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Speaker 1: with Lions offensive coordinator Ben Johnson today and just made
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Speaker 1: that announcement of moments ago. Thank you Tom, and thank
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Speaker 1: you Ian. Coaching news and quarterback news. It's that time
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Speaker 1: of the year, heading into Super wild Card weekend coming
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Speaker 1: up next on NFL Now. The Niners of the first
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Speaker 1: came up on Super wild Card weekend. They get the Seahawks.
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Speaker 1: We get Tayshawn Gibson, who had a couple of picks
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Speaker 1: last week. What do they have in store for GINO
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Speaker 1: and Round three? We'll find out rolling in the balance,
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Speaker 1: But you're to team for the stuf that I appreciate
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Speaker 1: the world, Wayne, a Niner, you knowing that one come
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Speaker 1: left one time for the NFC West, the divisions, faithful
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Speaker 1: to the pay Niners game up your chest. It's time
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Speaker 1: for playoff performance and nothing left. Kristin McCaffrey's looking ready
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Speaker 1: at the starting trash. That mid season train got the
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Speaker 1: fake Bolson and number twenty three got to squad rally
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Speaker 1: the route eighteen hundred plus scrimin Yard is still counting.
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Speaker 1: See him seven, moving like he's running down a mountain
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Speaker 1: where Bertie has been bawling. He was two we three,
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Speaker 1: Mr Relevant been looking relevant to me. He went from
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Speaker 1: getting lasting and tramped the leading the playoff team. With
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Speaker 1: his past and the flash, but not least as a
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Speaker 1: defense guaranteed to have your team wondering where to lead.
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Speaker 1: Went led by Nick Bolsa in his past rush the
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Speaker 1: forty Niners plus a ring. I guess we'll see if
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Speaker 1: that adds up, see if it adds up to a win.
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Speaker 1: The first step on that road to a potential super
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Speaker 1: Bowl is this week, and it could be raining. Tayshawn Gibson,
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Speaker 1: coming off a two pick performance week a team joins
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Speaker 1: us live on nine. How are you, tay Sean? I'm
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Speaker 1: doing well? Playoff football can being it can be feeling
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Speaker 1: any better. You cannot feel anybody. You might feel better
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Speaker 1: if if it wasn't a ninety percent chance of a
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Speaker 1: downpour though, right man, Absolutely nobody like ring games, but
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Speaker 1: you know what, that's what comes with it. So playoff
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Speaker 1: football gotta take it as it come. Okay, rain game,
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Speaker 1: So they run the ball, You run the ball. Is
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Speaker 1: that that? That's the simplistic way to look at this, right,
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Speaker 1: No one's gonna throw, You're gonna run. You gotta be
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Speaker 1: a mutter. Is that a cliche or is that a
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Speaker 1: real look at this game on Saturday? You know, honestly,
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Speaker 1: I think that that's a realistic look. Um, when when
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Speaker 1: it comes down to you know, sloppy football man, you
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Speaker 1: when it when it's raining and things like that. It's
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Speaker 1: just one of those things where you want to control
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Speaker 1: the ball. So obviously they have a good running back,
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Speaker 1: they have a good run game. Um, we have a
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Speaker 1: good run back. We have good run games. So it's
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Speaker 1: gonna be about who gonna be the most physical team
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Speaker 1: out there, and obviously that's who's probably gonna control the
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Speaker 1: temple and control the game. And obviously we're excited for
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Speaker 1: that matchup or run deep fence. Got some dogs up front,
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Speaker 1: so you know, if I'm a bet man, I definitely
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Speaker 1: like my eyes with the guys that we have. But
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Speaker 1: obviously it's gonna be exciting matchup. Come out there Saturday
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Speaker 1: and help me out. You're you're thirty two years old.
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Speaker 1: Why does Kyle Shanahan call you dad? Because this team
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Speaker 1: is so young. So when you got a guy like
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Speaker 1: me thirty two, you know, thirty two in the real world,
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Speaker 1: you're still a young man, but thirty two and in
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Speaker 1: the NFL world, as y'all know, especially in this locker room,
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Speaker 1: I'm definitely the old man. Got three kids, so you know,
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Speaker 1: I'm definitely Dad. Man. I gotta take those young guys
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Speaker 1: under my wings. Man. You know some of those guys
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Speaker 1: my my running mate huff Uh, he's teen years younger
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Speaker 1: than me. He's a two thousand babies, So to put
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Speaker 1: that in perspective, I'm definitely an old man in the room.
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Speaker 1: So you know it's a title that I wear with
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Speaker 1: a with a badge on it. Man, for sure. Man,
11:49
Speaker 1: it's pretty funny Talano who fun goes having an amazing
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Speaker 1: season in his second year heading to the Pro Bowl here.
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Speaker 1: So Dad is evidently gonna make some money. After that
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Speaker 1: two pick game last week, Jimmy Ward went to the
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Speaker 1: locker room, Tay Shawn said that you're about to make money.
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Speaker 1: What a ride it has been. I mean, you were
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Speaker 1: sitting at home with your kids in August the phone rang,
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Speaker 1: and dude, I know it's about team, but this has
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Speaker 1: been quite a one year deal for you. You know,
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Speaker 1: I couldn't script it, man, All glory be to God,
12:20
Speaker 1: this just was a perfect opportunity. Obviously, shout out to Jimmy.
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Speaker 1: He has been nothing but you know, one of my
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Speaker 1: closest friends on the team. Um, just helping me throughout
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Speaker 1: this process. Him and Huff. So I appreciate those words
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Speaker 1: from Jimmy Man obviously, just just being able to play
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Speaker 1: with a guy like him, in my opinion, one of
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Speaker 1: the best sages in the league. But I couldn't scripted
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Speaker 1: this any better. I say, sitting here going into preseason three,
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Speaker 1: I couldn't have scripted and said, man, I would be
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Speaker 1: here right now on this team, on the best defense. Um,
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Speaker 1: with the type of success that we've been able to have. Um,
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Speaker 1: you know, I'll be lying if I said I've seen
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Speaker 1: this happening. So I'm just humbled to have this opportunity.
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Speaker 1: First and foremost, I'm humbled to be in a position
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Speaker 1: to be here. And you know, it's just fun. It's just,
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Speaker 1: you know, I have nothing to lose. It's just truly is.
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Speaker 1: It's fun and it's a kid's game. Although I'm dad,
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Speaker 1: I'm still out here having fun like I'm a kid still.
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Speaker 1: And it looks that way. You lead the team with
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Speaker 1: five interceptions, including one off Geno Smith week two, when
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Speaker 1: you guys beat the Seahawks when they were riding high.
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Speaker 1: They are coming off that big Monday Night went over
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Speaker 1: Russell and the Broncos to open up the season, is
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Speaker 1: this offense different now than the one you saw a
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Speaker 1: week two or a couple of weeks ago in Seattle. Absolutely.
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Speaker 1: I think that when you see Geno Smith is coming
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Speaker 1: off of a Pro Bowl bi is so when you
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Speaker 1: look at a guy like that, he's obviously playing high
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Speaker 1: quality football right now. Walker the running back, when we
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Speaker 1: first seen him week two, he didn't get me any touch,
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Speaker 1: And I think Penny was still a guy, and he
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Speaker 1: just progressively got better and better and better as a
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Speaker 1: as a year went on, and he's one of the
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Speaker 1: top running backs in the league and his first year
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Speaker 1: and not even in the full season of playing. Obviously,
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Speaker 1: they have weapons Lockt Metcalf, those guys are still top
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Speaker 1: tier receivers man. So um, I think that those guys
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Speaker 1: are jelling and they're playing good, complimentary football. They can run,
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Speaker 1: they can pass, tight ends blocking tight ends, can make play.
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Speaker 1: So we gotta work cut out for us. Obviously seeing
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Speaker 1: them two times, Uh, the outcome of those two games
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Speaker 1: doesn't matter. Everybody know him. Playoff football. It's winning to
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Speaker 1: go home, so you can get teams best shots. So
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Speaker 1: we're expecting a dog fighting rightfully. So that's a good
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Speaker 1: division opponent. That's coming in here and we'll see high
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Speaker 1: shakeout ta Sean. Should Damiko Ryan's be a head coach
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Speaker 1: next year, absolutely no question about it. If he's not,
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Speaker 1: it's my choice, um, due to him staying here and
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Speaker 1: want to be around the guys, which I'm sure everybody
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Speaker 1: would love Miko to stay here. But I mean he's
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Speaker 1: been lights out and and it'd be a travesty if
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Speaker 1: he's not a head coach somewhere else obviously. Uh right now,
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Speaker 1: we focus on playoff football, so you know, I think
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Speaker 1: that that's the most important thing. But he's done a
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Speaker 1: light He's done an incredible job. I have nothing but
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Speaker 1: respect for him since the day I walked in here.
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Speaker 1: Just his knowledge of the game as well as being
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Speaker 1: a player. He understands the game from a different land.
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Speaker 1: So just been a wonderful joy to work with a
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Speaker 1: guy like Miko for sure. What makes him so good?
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Speaker 1: Like you guys have a lot of talent there obviously,
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Speaker 1: and that that's always the thing with coordinators. It's like, Wow,
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Speaker 1: he was so good and then he goes to kind
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Speaker 1: of head coach somewhere, but he's not taking all of
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Speaker 1: you with him, all right. Um, you know I think
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Speaker 1: that just just his understanding of the game. I think
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Speaker 1: that the way he caused the game just the understanding
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Speaker 1: of the game. And like I said, he never gets
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Speaker 1: too high too low. I don't think i've heard Minko
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Speaker 1: Yale two months this year. Obviously, it's a testament to
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Speaker 1: the players that he had, but it's a testament to
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Speaker 1: the coaching. And I think that he's just a guy
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Speaker 1: who commands the room. He's a leader of men, and
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Speaker 1: it's just like I said, it's just a pleasure to
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Speaker 1: work with this group of guys, obviously, and he's just
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Speaker 1: been who I envision him being. The defense was great
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Speaker 1: last year. You come in this year and take even
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Speaker 1: bigger step, which is hard to do when you was
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Speaker 1: already a dominant defense. And that's just a testament to
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Speaker 1: show the type of coach he is, the man he
15:47
Speaker 1: is the player here I mean in the coach is
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Speaker 1: so like I said, he's just a guy who command
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Speaker 1: this room. And you want to play for a guy
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Speaker 1: like Miko, and it's fun going out there. You don't
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Speaker 1: want to let him down because you understand what the
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Speaker 1: game meaning him and it spells out on the guys
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Speaker 1: that he's leading out there. Every Sunday. Well, if dad,
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Speaker 1: if your dad, rather than he's a grandmother, he's a
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Speaker 1: guy of father at Tashawn Gibson happy you're back at
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Speaker 1: the postseason. Congratulations on the success and good luck to
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Speaker 1: you on appreciate it. Thank you. I think you'll have
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Speaker 1: Tayshawn Gibson everybody to San Francisco. Forty diers let him
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Speaker 1: with five interceptions this year coming up next, Speaking of picks,
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Speaker 1: stacks thrown one in seven consecutive games. Does that change
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Speaker 1: Monday night in Tampa? How does it change? Coming up?
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Speaker 1: A big folk gang in around. It's all about resilience.
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Speaker 1: Let's go Dallas, you're ready for the play a let well,
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Speaker 1: I feel the same. It's not enough to make them
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Speaker 1: no more this time of what's some games he used
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Speaker 1: to aim This road to a ring is no West shot.
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Speaker 1: The Cowboys gonna need that director from Mr Prescott shout
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Speaker 1: the debt and when he's in the quarterback zone and
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Speaker 1: it's a rap. One of the recons this season. Dallas's
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Speaker 1: on the matter. Last year took the first rat of ross,
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Speaker 1: but that was that. Now we all try, let's getting better.
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Speaker 1: How you wanted in the Scott Winks leets. We're talking Russian.
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Speaker 1: You should meet Tony Politic. They'll just eat. They see
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Speaker 1: SAT team in on the deep fens. So you need
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Speaker 1: to retreat this season, they've been a league ceedee land
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Speaker 1: sup with single coverag journal you might want a chance
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Speaker 1: of second day? Was this man? So Michael Parsons in
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Speaker 1: that deep fits too much to hand to tune into
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Speaker 1: this playoff run. Don't touch the shack. Darren Woodson said yesterday,
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Speaker 1: you know, maybe a Hall of Famer Darren Woodson that
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Speaker 1: if they had that anthem back in the day, they
17:35
Speaker 1: would have won more than three Super Bowls. Just throwing
17:37
Speaker 1: it out there. So the Cowboys maybe said, listen to
17:40
Speaker 1: that anthem as they get ready to head down to
17:43
Speaker 1: Tampa on Monday. This is very different music, however, and
17:45
Speaker 1: get ready to face Tom Brady. I think you gotta
17:50
Speaker 1: embrace these opportunities. I'm gonna think about it. I mean,
17:52
Speaker 1: you're talking about you know, clearly you're probably the most decorated,
17:57
Speaker 1: you know, player of our generation, maybe even a history
18:00
Speaker 1: of the Nasal Football League. So I mean that speaks
18:02
Speaker 1: to what he's accomplished. But uh, I know, as competitors,
18:06
Speaker 1: we're we're all excited about this opportunity to compete against Tom.
18:10
Speaker 1: But the end of the day, this is this is football.
18:13
Speaker 1: You know, it's uh, you know, it's you know, it's
18:15
Speaker 1: more about the eleven and all the things that go
18:17
Speaker 1: into it. But yeah, I would say, you know, that's
18:20
Speaker 1: something you can ask the players in locker room, Like,
18:22
Speaker 1: I mean, we're we're excited about the opportunity if Cowboys
18:26
Speaker 1: too and oh career franchise that is against the Bucketeers.
18:29
Speaker 1: They have thirty five all time playoff victories. Tom Brady
18:34
Speaker 1: has thirty five all time playoff victories. That we got
18:36
Speaker 1: a million numbers to throw at you. Um, we can
18:39
Speaker 1: also say that Dak Prescott, G. D. Batista completed a
18:42
Speaker 1: career low thirties seven point eight percent of his passes
18:44
Speaker 1: in Week eighteen. That was the Cowboys worst loss of
18:46
Speaker 1: the year. Regardless, if they are to beat Brady, they
18:49
Speaker 1: probably need a better offensive balance than what we've seen
18:53
Speaker 1: of late. Yeah, the offensive balance is almost entirely out
18:57
Speaker 1: of whack. Actually, if you go back to when the
18:59
Speaker 1: Cowboys had Cooper Russian there um and and they were winning,
19:03
Speaker 1: they were not attempting anywhere year. The number of passes
19:06
Speaker 1: that they have been lately thirty seven. They were nowhere
19:10
Speaker 1: close to those numbers. Part of the problem is that
19:14
Speaker 1: their balances out of Part of the problem is that
19:16
Speaker 1: they have not been able to run the ball very effectively,
19:19
Speaker 1: especially if you look at the last three weeks, the
19:21
Speaker 1: numbers have declined until against Washington it was down to
19:24
Speaker 1: sixty four yards rushing, which is just abysmal. But in
19:27
Speaker 1: the last four weeks they're averaging averaging only three point
19:30
Speaker 1: two yards per rush. That is just nowhere near what
19:34
Speaker 1: this team wants to be. Don't forget this team wants
19:36
Speaker 1: to be a run first offense. Then Kellen Moore, the
19:39
Speaker 1: offensive coordinators, said they've got to find a way to
19:42
Speaker 1: be more efficient. He said, you don't need the big
19:44
Speaker 1: explosive runs, the twenty yard runs, but you've got to
19:46
Speaker 1: get more efficiency so that you are not in third
19:49
Speaker 1: and long and then you're putting it all on the
19:52
Speaker 1: passing game. And more said, we got to figure out
19:54
Speaker 1: a way, whether it's mixing up personnel or presentation, they've
19:57
Speaker 1: got to find a way. The bottom line here is
20:00
Speaker 1: the inability to run, and part of it certainly is
20:02
Speaker 1: that there are injuries along the offensive line. But the
20:05
Speaker 1: inability to run is putting even more pressure on the
20:08
Speaker 1: passing game. And that's what we're seeing with Dad right
20:11
Speaker 1: He is looking like he's pressing and trying to do
20:14
Speaker 1: too much. It's all on his shoulders and the Cowboys
20:17
Speaker 1: are going to have to try to figure out a
20:19
Speaker 1: way to get the running game going to give him
20:22
Speaker 1: some relief. If the Cowboys don't win this, it'll be
20:25
Speaker 1: their ninth consecutive road playoff loss. The only streak longer
20:31
Speaker 1: the Lions at eleven. That's what's at stake. Partly Monday
20:35
Speaker 1: night in Tampa, Thank you, Judy Batista, A game that
20:37
Speaker 1: will wrap up Super Wild Cards weekend. This game will
20:41
Speaker 1: open it up. This game is at four thirty Eastern
20:44
Speaker 1: time on Saturday, the Seahawks and the Fortys. And if
20:47
Speaker 1: you haven't heard by now, Brock Purties, first time to
20:52
Speaker 1: the postseason, welcome to the playoffs, and just how these
20:58
Speaker 1: past six games prepared you for what you're about to face. Yeah, um,
21:04
Speaker 1: I'm not trying to make it bigger than what it is. Um.
21:07
Speaker 1: Obviously there's more on the line and everything. Um, but
21:10
Speaker 1: I think you know, having six games under my belt
21:13
Speaker 1: in terms of just playing in an NFL game and
21:15
Speaker 1: trying to win for four quarters. Um, you know, to
21:17
Speaker 1: help me get to this point, and um, all the
21:20
Speaker 1: guys in the locker room got my back. They've we've
21:22
Speaker 1: all grown together, so um we're ready for what's ahead.
21:27
Speaker 1: Very interesting way to TEPU A question. Welcome to the playoffs,
21:31
Speaker 1: Steve White, welcome as well, live in Santa Clara. See
21:34
Speaker 1: if we had Tayshaun Gibsons into the chair a couple
21:36
Speaker 1: of the minutes ago, and he pointed out the difference
21:40
Speaker 1: between back in September when these two teams met, specifically,
21:44
Speaker 1: Kenneth Walker the Third another rookie. Well, absolutely, Keth Walking
21:50
Speaker 1: the Third, like brock Purty, is surging at the end
21:53
Speaker 1: of the season. His last three games, he's gone from
21:56
Speaker 1: more than one hundred yards a game and he's done
21:59
Speaker 1: it on seventy eight carries no fewer than twenty three
22:02
Speaker 1: in any of those three games. So he is their
22:04
Speaker 1: workhorse who gets stronger as the game goes along. So
22:07
Speaker 1: I talked to Guard Gave Jackson about Walkers kind of
22:11
Speaker 1: surging right now, and he said, look, it's part of
22:14
Speaker 1: the experience, but he's so tough and physically gifted, but
22:17
Speaker 1: he said, it's mainly trust. So the game is slowing
22:20
Speaker 1: down for him now, but he's seeing how the offensive
22:22
Speaker 1: line is setting up blocks, he's reading blocks, and then
22:26
Speaker 1: he says, if nothing's there, he's gonna make something happen,
22:29
Speaker 1: either with his power or his shake. Now, the thing
22:32
Speaker 1: is they're playing a Niners defense tops in the NFL
22:35
Speaker 1: and run defense, and they really haven't allowed Seattle to
22:38
Speaker 1: get anything going on the ground in these first two games.
22:41
Speaker 1: But as the cliche is, and as both teams are saying,
22:44
Speaker 1: those first two games don't have anything to do with
22:46
Speaker 1: this woman, no, but the rain may have a lot
22:49
Speaker 1: to do with the fact that you're gonna have to
22:50
Speaker 1: run the football to win this game. And Elijah Mitchell
22:54
Speaker 1: coming back last week is huge. It is huge now.
22:59
Speaker 1: Elijah Mitchell. The Niners speaking the prior to games have
23:02
Speaker 1: run for three hundred and fifty nine yards against Seattle
23:05
Speaker 1: this year. They've gashed them. But again that you talked
23:08
Speaker 1: about the weather conditions, it's gonna be rainy, potentially sloppy
23:11
Speaker 1: on this field in those two prior games. Elijah Mitchell,
23:14
Speaker 1: the Niners Week one starter who's missed most of the
23:18
Speaker 1: season with a niche brain. He hasn't played against Seattle.
23:22
Speaker 1: He is back, and Chris Florster, the run game coordinator, said,
23:26
Speaker 1: having him back and the combination of him McCaffrey is
23:29
Speaker 1: fantastic because Christian McCaffrey, as you know, fast, versatile, and
23:33
Speaker 1: Elijah Mitchell is fast and powerful. He finishes runs more
23:36
Speaker 1: powerfully than just about any back in the NFL. To
23:39
Speaker 1: what that allows the Niners to do is to not
23:42
Speaker 1: only use different personnel sets and different running plans, but
23:45
Speaker 1: to use both of those guys and some of their
23:47
Speaker 1: other running backs on different parts of the field. And
23:52
Speaker 1: so having Elijah Mitchell back again to punish a lot
23:55
Speaker 1: of times you see him now in the second half
23:56
Speaker 1: of games, to punish after McCaffrey's kind of season things
24:00
Speaker 1: up with more of the finesse game could give them
24:02
Speaker 1: more options and that's been a huge part to what
24:05
Speaker 1: their offense has done these past couple of weeks. And
24:07
Speaker 1: maybe this offense looks like the one that they rode
24:09
Speaker 1: to the Super Bowl in January. In January where Jimmy
24:13
Speaker 1: Garoppolo was not allowed to throw a pass and all
24:16
Speaker 1: they did is run and run and run and run,
24:18
Speaker 1: which they might do Saturday. Thank you. Steve White's there
24:21
Speaker 1: in Santa clar ahead of the storm coming on Saturday.
24:26
Speaker 1: Coming up next, we're going indoors, no rain in Minneapolis.
24:31
Speaker 1: Can the Vikings find a way to protect Kirk Cousins
24:34
Speaker 1: this week when the pluck kick up the bone running,
24:43
Speaker 1: you're watching NFL Now, NFL Network. You're looking at Justin
24:45
Speaker 1: Jefferson with a double digit catch performance against the Giants
24:49
Speaker 1: Week sixteen. Everybody got involved, including t J. Hockenson. It's
24:53
Speaker 1: these same two teams in a playoff rematch on Super
24:56
Speaker 1: wild Card weekend in a building in which the Vikings
24:59
Speaker 1: when eight one this year. I think playoffs all bring
25:05
Speaker 1: an excitement that's just great to have, you know. I
25:08
Speaker 1: think that intensity and and that sense of urgency is
25:11
Speaker 1: what makes the playoffs fun. And it's kind of a
25:14
Speaker 1: fun challenge to uh to know that, um, it's winner,
25:17
Speaker 1: go home. I think there's a competitive thrill there if
25:23
Speaker 1: you will. That's that's fun about that that um you know,
25:25
Speaker 1: you you play your work, You go back to April, May,
25:29
Speaker 1: June and August and and the whole season really to
25:33
Speaker 1: get to this opportunity, and they're gonna get it in
25:36
Speaker 1: front of their home fans. James Palmer Mark Ross back
25:39
Speaker 1: with me. When they did play Week sixteen, the Giants
25:41
Speaker 1: put more pressure James on Kirk Cousins than any team
25:44
Speaker 1: had done nineteen pressures the entire season. That's a tall
25:47
Speaker 1: task for a banged up offensive line. This week, it
25:51
Speaker 1: really is. We were watching that little highlight before we
25:53
Speaker 1: heard kirk Cousins talking about he was throwing some darts
25:55
Speaker 1: out there, but he was also getting hit on almost
25:57
Speaker 1: every one of them. He was sacked four times in
26:00
Speaker 1: that game, as you mentioned the pressures, Andrews also hit
26:02
Speaker 1: eleven times. Now they're trying to piece together this offensive
26:05
Speaker 1: line to where he's not under that pressure again in
26:08
Speaker 1: this game. They're hoping to get Garrett Bradberry back at
26:11
Speaker 1: the center position. They had a pretty spirited practice yesterday.
26:14
Speaker 1: To my understanding, he came out of that looking pretty
26:15
Speaker 1: good in the eyes of the coaching staff with that
26:17
Speaker 1: lower backstrain, hoping he can go. We know they don't
26:21
Speaker 1: have Brian O'Neill at the right tackle spot. He's done
26:23
Speaker 1: for the season, and they're hoping that they're not having
26:25
Speaker 1: to play a third string right tackle over there like
26:28
Speaker 1: they have in the past. So what the biggest aspect
26:30
Speaker 1: of protecting Kirk Cousins is is it's a priority to
26:33
Speaker 1: Kevin O'Connell because of the way Cousins plays in a rhythm,
26:37
Speaker 1: the way that he plays fast and free with his
26:39
Speaker 1: decision making when he is able to be protected because Mark,
26:42
Speaker 1: that's extremely important. By the way, we know, this offense
26:45
Speaker 1: is designed to where there's not just routes for just
26:47
Speaker 1: one guy, play designs for just one player, even though
26:50
Speaker 1: a lot of them they want Jefferson to be open on.
26:53
Speaker 1: He has to make a lot of decisions and if
26:54
Speaker 1: he's under pressure during a lot of them, it makes
26:56
Speaker 1: it a little bit more complicated, and so we'll see
26:59
Speaker 1: a type of pressure he is under. We know that
27:00
Speaker 1: they blitz so much more than really anybody else in
27:03
Speaker 1: all football. The Giants do well see if they can
27:05
Speaker 1: protect Kirk Cousins with this offensive line, because it really
27:08
Speaker 1: changes the way this offense opera the last four years.
27:12
Speaker 1: The six seed is seven and one, Mark Ross wild
27:14
Speaker 1: Card weekend. Are the Giants gonna upset the Vikings? Yes
27:19
Speaker 1: they are, Andrew, this is the one that sweet spot
27:21
Speaker 1: almost like March Madness. You know, that's twelve five seed
27:25
Speaker 1: and that twelve is gonna win this six three seed
27:27
Speaker 1: in the NFL playoffs. As you mentioned, eight in the
27:30
Speaker 1: last nine years to a sixth seed has won and
27:33
Speaker 1: the Giants, so historically they've got that in their favorite
27:36
Speaker 1: but specifically in this game. James mentioned about the defense,
27:39
Speaker 1: how well the Giants defense played in the first game. Well,
27:42
Speaker 1: I thought it was the best offensive performance by the
27:45
Speaker 1: Giants offense total yards. They just kept beating themselves. Daniel
27:50
Speaker 1: Jones threw a bad interception, Daniel Bellinger fumbled the ball,
27:53
Speaker 1: and they had that block punt, so that's what really
27:56
Speaker 1: hurt the Giants. And still it was just that sixty
27:59
Speaker 1: one yard field goal it's time expired that beat them.
28:02
Speaker 1: So I think they have a lot of confidence going
28:04
Speaker 1: to this game against them Ansota that yes, we can
28:06
Speaker 1: roll on offense, our defense can get pressure, we just
28:09
Speaker 1: cannot beat ourselves, which has been the formula all season
28:12
Speaker 1: for the Giants and their wins of playing mistake free
28:14
Speaker 1: football and opportune moments coming through. So I would expect
28:18
Speaker 1: more of the same. And y g another six seed
28:21
Speaker 1: beating a three seed. Andrew, Okay, hey Vikings Social team
28:24
Speaker 1: used take two there. Okay, you're slipping it anyway, Andrew,
28:28
Speaker 1: you're just getting somebody upset. I'm also with you. I
28:32
Speaker 1: think the Giants can pull this off. Thank you Mark,
28:34
Speaker 1: and thank you James. It is one of six games
28:38
Speaker 1: on Super wild Card weekend. The Giants and the Vikings,
28:41
Speaker 1: a rematch from weeks sixteen, is at four thirty Eastern time,
28:46
Speaker 1: the second game on Fox. It is immediately following the
28:51
Speaker 1: Bills and the Dolphins in Orchard Park. They split this year,
28:57
Speaker 1: Judy in the regular season. What's the biggest challenge for
29:00
Speaker 1: the Bills this week? Frankly, I think it's keeping an
29:04
Speaker 1: even heel. There's been so much going on around the Bills,
29:08
Speaker 1: and they weathered the emotional storm last week, of course
29:11
Speaker 1: with Damar Hamlin and his incredible recovery um. But now
29:15
Speaker 1: they've got to get back up and play the way
29:17
Speaker 1: they can play. But they also know that they are
29:20
Speaker 1: playing a very diminished team. The Miami Dolphins scored ten
29:24
Speaker 1: fewer points when ta is not playing, from twenty six
29:27
Speaker 1: points per game to sixteen. Well, the Bills know that
29:30
Speaker 1: the Bills have been executing very well. They're on a
29:33
Speaker 1: seven game winning street, but they got to keep their
29:35
Speaker 1: level now and they can't risk looking ahead either. Micah
29:39
Speaker 1: Hyde has returned to practice. Everybody's really psyched about the
29:42
Speaker 1: possibility of a Micah Hyde return for a potential divisional
29:45
Speaker 1: round game and maybe another meeting with the Cincinnati Bengals.
29:48
Speaker 1: But I think the biggest challenge for the Bills this week, Andrew,
29:52
Speaker 1: is just maintaining their level and getting back to normal.
29:56
Speaker 1: There have been so many highs and lows just in
29:59
Speaker 1: the last ten days or so. They just have to
30:02
Speaker 1: go out and execute a game plan and if so
30:06
Speaker 1: and if they do it, then they would advance as
30:09
Speaker 1: the two seed in the a f C. Thank you,
30:12
Speaker 1: Judy Batista. This is NFL now on NFL Network, and
30:15
Speaker 1: we have some sad news to pass along. We lost
30:17
Speaker 1: Charles White yesterday. The former Ram, the former Brown, the
30:21
Speaker 1: former Trojan, and the former Heisman Trophy winner in nineteen
30:25
Speaker 1: seventy nine. A member of the College Football Hall of Fame.
30:27
Speaker 1: Still to this day, Charles White is USC's all time
30:31
Speaker 1: leading rusher with over sixty two hundred yards, just a
30:35
Speaker 1: mind blowing number. He was a first round pick of
30:37
Speaker 1: the Browns and then eventually made his way back to
30:40
Speaker 1: l A to join the Rams. Were in eight five.
30:43
Speaker 1: He reunited with John Robinson, his coach for mESC and
30:46
Speaker 1: Charles White led the NFL and carries and yards and
30:49
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30:54
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30:57
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